Beats International - All 2 Albums @320

1. Beats International - Let Them Eat Bingo (1990)







In between his late-'80s gig with the Housemartins and his late-'90s gig as Fatboy Slim, reigning avatar of big beat, bassist and DJ Norman Cook made two albums under the name Beats International. On both albums the concept was the same: steal musical snippets as blatantly as possible from as many different sources as possible and recombine them into frothy, funky, and irresistibly hooky slabs of dance pop. Does "Dub Be Good to Me" sound familiar? It should -- that's the bassline from the Clash's "Guns of Brixton" churning underneath an otherwise relatively faithful rendition of the SOS Band's "Just Be Good to Me." Whose atonal guitar riff is that on "I Won't Talk About It?" Why, Billy Bragg's! (That's apparently his tortured falsetto, too). And there's more -- cribbed snippets of Delta blues, what sound very much like samples of Fela Ransome-Kute, all kinds of interesting and obscure stuff. One could probably get all offended by this sort of bald-faced thievery, but that would just spoil the fun. Cook isn't pretending to be original here; he's just showing how much fun you can have with a sampler and flawless taste in beats. (The CD includes a bonus 12" remix of "For Spacious Lies."). (AMG)









01. Burundi Blues

02. Dub Be Good To Me (Vocals - Lindy Layton)

03. Before I Grow Too Old

04. The Ragged Trousered Percussionists

05. For Spacious Lies

06. Blame It On The Bassline (Vocals [Rap] - MC Wildski)

07. Won't Talk About It (Featuring - Billy Bragg)

08. Dance To The Drummer's Beat

09. Babies Makin' Babies (Stoop Rap)

10. The Whole World's Down On Me

11. Tribute To King Tubby

12. For Spacious Lies (12 Version)













2. Beats International - Excursion on the Version (1991)







"Everybody get off your feet/And rock to this brand new beat" are the first words you hear on Beats International's second album, and the joke is that there's nothing "brand new" here, not the beats or anything else. Like most disk jockeys, Norman Cook has no problem with commandeering whatever copyrights take his fantasy, so don't be surprised when the chorus to "Echo Chamber," for example, cops part of Steve Miller's "Fly Like an Eagle." Actually, the music on this album isn't as explicitly derivative as that on the group's debut, Let Them Eat Bingo, but it's all generally derivative, especially of all-purpose ska and reggae grooves. (AMG)







01. Brand New Beat

02. Change Your Mind

03. Love Is Green

04. Echo Chamber (Featuring - Daddy Freddy)

05. The Sun Doesn't Shine

06. Herman (Featuring - Definition Of Sound)

07. Three Foot Skank (Featuring - Daddy Freddy , Wildski)

08. No More Mr Nice Guy

09. Eyes On The Prize

10. Ten Long Years

11. In The Ghetto

12. Come Home









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